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Humor - I see it as a survival skill.
Jill Mccorkle / Short Story Writer
Skills
Survival
Survival Skills
Skill
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There is a choice to make, a chance to take.
Jill Mccorkle / Short Story Writer
Chance
Choices
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You will never be as smart as your subconscious.
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Smart
Subconscious
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For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction.
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Novelist
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Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe.
Jill Mccorkle / Short Story Writer
Building
Dollhouses
Writing
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My joy as a writer is circling around and around and down and down to find out who the real person is.
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Real Person
Circling
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By the time I sit down ready to write, I've done a lot of longhand and a lot of note collecting along the way.
Jill Mccorkle / Short Story Writer
Collecting
By The Time
Longhand
Note
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I think too many people edit themselves way too soon. There's plenty of time to edit, and it is a crucial part of it all, too.
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Crucial
Time People Way
Edit
Too Many People
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Sometimes I do feel like I write the same story again and again. And for me, I am always looking for a place with a kind of redemption.
Jill Mccorkle / Short Story Writer
Redemption
I Am Me Looking
Same Story
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I am very interested in that fine line between fiction and reality and between comedy and tragedy - and pushing the line as much as possible.
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Pushing
Tragedy
Fine Line
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Steve Yarbrough is a masterful storyteller-one of our finest-and Safe from the Neighbors is a masterpiece. . . . This is a spellbinding, powerful novel.
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Neighbor
Powerful
Safe
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I always tell my students, 'If you walk around with your eyes and ears open, you can't possibly live long enough to write all the novels you'll encounter.'
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Ears
Encounter
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You want to feel that your reader does identify with the characters so that there's a real entry into the story - that some quality speaks to the individual.
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Entry
Reader
Identify
Speaks
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I thought that we were all like trees, flexible youths, saplings, who grow up heavy and stiff, spread seeds and get chopped down and turned into notebook paper.
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Notebook
Growing Up
Paper
Tree
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It's one of the most basic laws of human nature, isn't it? The more we are denied something, the more we want it. The more silence given to this or that topic, the more power.
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Denied
Human Nature
Silence
More Power
Topic
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I once had a story editor ask me not to use the word 'placenta.' I wanted to say: 'Now tell me again how you got here?' Oh, right, an angel of God placed you into the bill of the stork.
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Editor
Placed
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The silver friend knows your present and the gold friend knows all of your past dirt and glories. Once in a blue moon there is someone who knows it all, someone who knows and accepts you unconditionally, someone who is there for life.
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Blue
Moon
Past
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For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.
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Clear
Clear Vision
Crutches
Vision
Way
Work Out
Life Walk Me
Bow
Works
Coming
Enables
Ending
Happy Ending
Walk
Throw
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I think that marriage vows should include an escape clause that says the contract is broken if one party ups and makes a big switch in religion or politics or aesthetic taste. I mean, these shifts just aren't fair, and we need an easier way out.
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Marriage
Mean
Party
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By limiting or denying freedom of speech and expression, we take away a lot of potential. We take away thoughts and ideas before they even have the opportunity to hatch. We build a world around negatives - you can't say, think, or do this or that.
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Freedom Of Speech
Speech
Freedom Opportunity World
Denying
Hatch
Limiting
Negatives
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The first draft is all about freedom, and if loyalty is in question, it is only my loyalty to the characters and situations on the page. All the worries about where the material may have sprung from or what so-and-so might think can be dealt with later.
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Loyalty
Sprung
Dealt
Draft
Page
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One day, when my son was eight, he came into the kitchen while I was cooking and said: 'You put bad words in your books, don't you?' No doubt he had overheard my mother, who often tells people who ask about my work: 'Well, you'll never find her books in the Christian bookstore.'
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Cooking
No Doubt
Work Your Day
Bookstore
Overheard
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I was with my dad 20 years ago as he was dying. I was there at the moment of his death, and I kept wondering the whole while what it must feel like from his point of view to still be there thinking, hearing all that was going on as people came and went, and life continued all around him.
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Dying
Point Of View
Wondering
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Certainly if I were to think in terms of a field that would have required a different mode of education, I think I would have leaned in the direction of being a therapist. And without the education, or a different kind of education, I think my first choice would be a landscape architect. I love to garden.
Jill Mccorkle / Short Story Writer
Architect
Choices
Garden
Landscape
Thinking
Different Kind
Direction
Mode
Required
Therapist
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I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way that is not linear or chronological at all, even with the short story. I will just be writing bits and pieces, and then when I have all the pieces on the table, that for me is when it feels like the real work begins.
Jill Mccorkle / Short Story Writer
Bits
Bits And Pieces
Linear
Protective
Real
Real Work
Short Story
Together
Writing
Work Together Me
Begins
Chronological
Draft
Just Be
Table
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If a nuclear disaster occurred, and you had to live out those final painful days just stretched out somewhere thinking about your life--This is who I am. This is what I love. This is what I believe--who would you want hearing your whispers? Or perhaps better: Who do you trust to hear your whispers? Whose breath do you want mingled with your own? Whose flesh still warm beside you?
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Believe
Thinking About You
Who I Am
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We used to all come outside when the streetlights came on and prowl the neighborhood in a pack, a herd of kids on banana-seat bikes and minibikes. The grown-ups looked so silly framed in their living-room and kitchen windows. They complained about their days and signed deep sighs of depression and loss. They talked about how spoiled and lucky children were these days. We will never be that way, we said, we will never say those things.
Jill Mccorkle / Short Story Writer
Kids
Children
Silly
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